The Nuge proves once again that his politics are as insanely bad as his music. Worst of all, we’re not gonna be welcome at his annual squirrel cook-off this summer. Sounds like it may be a bloodbath this year anyway.

[From AP] Speaking at the NRA’s annual convention Saturday, Nugent said each NRA member should try to enroll 10 new members over the next year and associate only with other members.
“Let’s next year sit here and say, ‘Holy smokes, the NRA has 40 million members now,’” he said. “No one is allowed at our barbecues unless they are an NRA member. Do that in your life.”
“Remember the Alamo! Shoot ‘em!” he screamed to applause. “To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want ‘em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot ‘em.”

Ann Coulter made the cover of this week’s Time magazine. Here’s an except of Time’s jerkoff session:

“On TV or in person, you can trust that Coulter will speak from her heart. The officialdom of punditry, so full of phonies and dullards, would suffer without her humor and fire.”

Truth be told, we’d feel a lot better if this phony dullard would shut the fuck up for once. Here are some examples of her “humor and fire”:

“We should invade their [Middle Eastern] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.”
“I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning”
“Press passes can’t be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas [who is Lebanese] to sit within yards of the president.”
“God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, ‘Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.”
“When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty.We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too. Otherwise they will turn out to be outright traitors.”
To a disabled Vietnam vet: “People like you caused us to lose that war.”
“I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.”
“The presumption of innocence only means you don’t go right to jail.”
“I have to say I’m all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the ‘hood to be flogged publicly.”
“[Anti-war Democrats] know that the American people support defending America, unlike them. Their real feelings are coming out as much as they can right now, which is that they’re desperately dying to provide aid and support to al-Qaeda.”
“Americans understand that Manhattan is the Soviet Union.”
“My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.”
“Kwanzaa itself is a lunatic blend of schmaltzy ’60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism. Indeed, the seven ‘principles’of Kwanzaa praise collectivism in every possible arena of life — economics, work, personality, even litter removal.”
“Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America’s self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.”

Feel free to add your favorite Ann Coulter quotes in comments.

Mel Gibson to film the Pope’s story
Mel Gibson is reportedly set to turn Pope John Paul II’s story into a Hollywood movie. The New York Post reports Gibson has already filmed the ending to the movie. He also reportedly despatched a production crew to Rome to film the pope’s funeral. Gibson, a devote Roman Catholic, last year enjoyed one of Hollywood’s biggest box-office hits with The Passion of Christ. (from Ananova)

FROM NY TIMES

As the Senate heads toward a showdown over the rules governing judicial confirmations, Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, has agreed to join a handful of prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast portraying Democrats as “against people of faith” for blocking President Bush’s nominees.
Fliers for the telecast, organized by the Family Research Council and scheduled to originate at a Kentucky megachurch the evening of April 24, call the day “Justice Sunday” and depict a young man holding a Bible in one hand and a gavel in the other. The flier does not name participants, but under the heading “the filibuster against people of faith,” it reads: “The filibuster was once abused to protect racial bias, and it is now being used against people of faith.”

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BECK has announced a special NEW YORK gig.
The star will be appearing at the Hiro Ballroom in the city’s Maritime Hotel for the exclusive show.
Tickets can ONLY be bought here.
The password to purchase tickets is: girls. Tickets are limited to two per person and priced at $25.(From NME)

From BuyBlue.org

Based only on amounts given by their C-level executives in 2003-2004,
Ten Bluest Corporations
Time Warner, $1,713,621, 77% Blue
Viacom, $892,513, 78% Blue
News Corp, $689,549, 61% *
Walt Disney, $606,504, 70% Blue
IBM, $397,936, 68% Blue
Cablevision, $326,842, 68% Blue
Torchmark Insurance Cos., $314,441, 88% Blue
Sony Corp. of America, $287,535, 69% Blue
Working Assets, $234,255, 100% Blue
Costco, $224,803, 99% Blue
Ten Reddest Corporations
United Parcel Service, $2,361,922, 71%
SBC Communications, $2,028,031, 67% Red
Merrill Lynch, $1,900,326, 72%, Red
Pfizer, $1,465,317, 67% Red
MBNA Corp., $1,453,497, 73% Red
Union Pacific, $1,428,663, 79% Red
Southern Co., $1,041,025, 80% Red
Wachovia Corp, $998,997, 75% Red
Clear Channel Communications, $764,318, 67% Red
General Electric, $747,386, 67% Red

It’s not just Tom Delay….

From AP
Lawmakers with relatives on their congressional or campaign staffs include:
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas: Wife and daughter were paid more than $500,000 since 2001 for working for DeLay’s campaign and political action committees.
Connecticut Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman: Son Matthew received about $34,000 and daughter Rebecca about $36,000 for working on the senator’s 2004 presidential campaign.
Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash.: Nephew Todd Reichert was paid $3,000 last year, plus several hundred dollars for mileage, for serving as driver.
California Democratic Rep. Fortney “Pete” Stark: Wife Deborah earns $2,400 a month for serving as campaign consultant.

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[Via Wonkette]
This is truly in bad taste. ABC even makes you watch an ad first. Callous capitalist dipshits.

It’s like Giuliani all over again….
From Daily News:

City cleared to XXX out smut
The Big Apple is about to get a cold shower.
An appeals court gave the city a green light yesterday to shut down strip clubs and other X-rated businesses operating outside adults-only zones.
The ruling could force 100 flesh meccas out of residential and tourist neighborhoods, and into industrial areas such as the far West Side of Manhattan.
“The only place in Manhattan that you will have adult establishments is surrounding Jets stadium,” said Mark Alonso, a lawyer for Ten’s Cabaret on E. 21st St.
The sex shops plan to appeal, but if they don’t prevail, some of the topless bars, video stops and theaters are likely to close – or at least cover up.
Scores, for instance, would have to shutter its E. 60th St. emporium but could keep operating its club on W. 28th St., a spokesman said.
“The city is going to lose millions in taxes a year,” Alonso predicted. “Businessmen don’t go out of their way to see dressed women dance.”

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This promises to be a great release party. The National’s new record, Alligator, is a perfect mesh of alternative country and brit-pop-inspired indie. Just what you’d expect from an Ohio-transplanted New York band. A very accomplished record that becomes more rewarding with multiple spins.
Tuesday April 12:
Record release party for “Alligator” presented by Beggars Banquet and Fader Magazine. Doors at 8pm – The National play a short set beginning at 9pm sharp. Free Red Stripe, Guiness, and Harp from 8pm to 9pm.
Supreme Trading
213 N. 8th St.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York